Through-Circles

Two circles — an entrance and an exit: stand on one, crouch, and you are on the other, wherever it is. Great circles (5 × 5) lead even to the Nether and the End.

1. Lay nine flowstone bottom slabs as a 3 × 3 square and run a ruling pen over the middle one — that is a circle (the entry "Current Circles"). To step to another world, lay twenty-five, 5 × 5.

2. Set Shift, Drift and Bind glyphs in its three sockets, one each (the Crucible casts them — the entry "Current Glyphs").

3. Where you want to arrive, draw a second circle like it and set Shift and Drift in it.

4. Right-click the first circle with one more Bind glyph — it remembers that circle. Set it in the third socket of the second circle — the circles are paired.

5. Stand on either one and crouch: a second and a half later you are on the other.

The cost is the flux of the land you leave: 4 and 1 more for every 100 blocks, 16 at most; 24 between worlds.

After a step the circle rests for 5 seconds.

A small circle (3 × 3) leads within its own world. Between worlds — the Overworld, the Nether and the End — only great circles (5 × 5) lead, at both ends. Circles do not lead in the Stillness, the Lees or the Quickstream: they have their own ways.

Your pets standing on the circle come with you. A circle does not carry things or other creatures — Through-Mirrors are for things.

Someone else's circle is closed. The owner is the one who set the last glyph: crouching, they right-click the circle with any glyph to open it to guests.

If the far circle is erased, undone or blocked, you stay where you are, and no flux is spent.

The Reckoners walked between their sluices like this: two circles on two weirs, and the keeper stepped over the river without wetting his feet. A circle does not hold the land on the other side — it comes for the moment of the step and falls asleep again.